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img src="url_of_image" height="20px" width="20pxMARK AND ROB WILL BE TOURING THIS SUMMER AS PART OF THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL BAND!Polygraph Lounge is Rob Schwimmer and Mark Stewart. Individually they have worked with Paul Simon, Wayne Shorter, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Bang on a Can, Stevie Wonder, Annette Peacock, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Willie Nelson, Anthony Braxton, Kurt Vonnegut, Eliot Feld, Fred Frith, Sam Rivers, Burt Bacharach, Muddy Waters, Alwin Nikolai, Vernon Reid, John Cale, Sammy Davis Jr., Hanson, Bette Midler, Adam Guettel, Queen Latifah, as well as Simon and Garfunkel (collectively.).Polygraph Lounge is what they do when their keepers aren't looking.Conceived in the musical hotbed of New York City's Lower East Side, Polygraph Lounge is the duo of Rob Schwimmer and Mark Stewart. Seeking fulfillment outside of their respective lives as virtuoso soloists, composers and sidemen, they created Eudora's lovely Polygraph Lounge in beautiful downtown Montezuma, Iowa, where it's always Saturday night. As their alter-egos Chuck McCubbin and Ernest Tuber, they offer up inspired lunacy fired from a veritable arsenal of musical instruments. They have been described as "Spike Jones for the 21st Century!", "Striptease Music for Geese!" as well as the ever acceptable "Brilliant!"Strip mining the common cultural currency of our times, Polygraph Lounge engineer an epic train wreck of the American cargo cult, aiming directly at the funny bone of pop culture here at the beginning of the new millenium:Inna Gadda Da Vida as Gregorian Chant, Led Zeppelin meets Aaron Copland, an audience of hundreds of nostrils flaring and blaring on nose flutes in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly while the Lounge soars over the top in the surf guitar paradise that is Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake, while Purple Haze, Green Acres and Stravinsky's Firebird live happily together in connubial bliss. Be it current events, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, or Mozart's Eine Kleine Razzernacht, all are fodder for the cannon of hilarity fired directly to your Medulla Oblongata Da Vida.So buckle up your buttflaps, karma-campers, and join the boys on this roller coaster ride to the 3 and 2/3rd dimension where they salute English cuisine, Ornette Funicello, and units of measurement. With scoutmasters Chuck and Ernest leading the pack, you'd swear we'd all been raised by wolves. And you'd swear it's always Saturday night at Eudora's lovely night spot in beautiful downtown Montezuma, Iowa: THE POLYGRAPH LOUNGE!

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Member Since: 20/08/2005
Band Website: www.polygraphlounge.com
Band Members: Rob Schwimmer Mark Stewart Melissa Fathman
Influences: "MAD GENIUS SHOULD ALWAYS BE THIS FUN!" The New York Times "VIBRANTLY SCREWY!" Time Out New York"MUSICALL HIGH-MINDED BUT HILARIOUSLY LOWBROW AND ALWAYS MANIACAL!" New York Post..


Sounds Like: «There's a mind-altering, virtuoso precision at the heart of Polygraph Lounge, as Schwimmer and Stewart execute hairpin turns and loop-de-loops before heading off in some other unexpected (a)tonal direction. » [ more ... ]Jim Knipfel New York Press July 6, 2005«Nothing today is much like Polygraph Lounge, and nothing like Polygraph Lounge would have been possible earlier, because its work depends on more than 250 years of music since Bach's day, and on modern electronics -- not only electronic instruments, but the electronic world that all of us inhabit, in which the music of the world can fill the air at a touch of a button, and everything we have heard can be simultaneously present in our memory and imagination»Richard Dyer The Boston Globe (Living/Arts Section) February 14, 2005«Of all the quirky bands in New York, Polygraph Lounge stands out for its sheer ingenuity... Once their mischievous, hyperactive creativity gets loose, there's no stopping it... Mr. Stewart and Mr. Schwimmer have the kind of chemistry one expects from a smart, funny rock band that has been together since childhood, goofing off and punning left and right like fresh young Beatles.»Ben Sisario The New York Times (Arts and Leisure Section) November 3rd, 2002«Fearsome prowess... These two can hook anything in the deep ocean of pop effortlessly, which frees up their attention to wring melody from a theremin, daxophone, PVC bassoons, and cardboard alpenhorns (e.g.). The stage looked like the Cat in the Hat ransacked a gamelan.»David Krasnow The Village Voice«Polygraph Lounge is today's pop culture meets Spike Jones meeting John Cage! A great evening on every level! --They're explosive!»Arif Mardin Legendary multi-Grammy Award winning producer including 2003 Grammy Award Winner--Producer (Norah Jones)
Record Label: NuNoise Records
Type of Label: Indie

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